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ugjka to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU

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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU

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ugjka to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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Today I filed a formal complaint against #YouTube with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner for their illegal deployment of #adblock detection technologies. Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service. In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.
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    73•2 years ago

    EU to the rescue again!

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      Rescue lol. The EU is singlehandedly bringing forth the end of online privacy.

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        Really interested in your thought process here

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          Probably referring to this. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/

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      EU wants to make sure I see ads? Screw that. Freaking capitalists. Seems the US doesn’t have a monopoly on capatalism.

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        Eh, no, it’s the exact opposite of that.

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          7•2 years ago

          They’re probably talking about the anti-encrypted message regulations. EU wants to make end-to-end messengers illegal to “protect the children”.

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        Huh? This is about youtube wanting to make sure you see ads, and people complaining to the EU to make them censure youtube for it. Not sure where you got that EU wants to make sure you see ads.

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